Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo, right, discusses a call with a referee during a game against Ohio State on Feb. 24, 2013.

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College basketball is targeting you in its quest for a prettier, higher-scoring game.

An adjustment to block-charge guidelines is the most significant rules tweak to emerge from this week's NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee meetings in Indianapolis. If it and other changes are approved, as expected, on June 18 and put into effect next season, a defender will have to be set earlier, before an offensive player begins his upward motion to shoot or pass - not before the offensive player is in the air, as in the past. ...